Amid another week of turmoil in Washington D.C., columnist Matthew Tully visits one of Central Indiana’s most pro-Trump precincts. At one house, he finds very different opinions about the president.

I drove up to what you might call the heart of Trump country the other day, to a rural and unincorporated Hamilton County community called Omega, home to a church, numerous farms and a small voting precinct that gave more than 80 percent of its votes last year to Donald J. Trump.

It’s a lovely part of the state, with mile upon mile of flat Indiana farmland that will soon be bursting with crops, and so few homes that it took hours and two visits for me to find people to talk to about the first-year president. There’s a place of worship, but nobody was there, and there’s not a store or restaurant to be found.

Fortunately, on a mild Tuesday morning, I spotted a married couple named David and Amy talking outside their one-story white home, which sits just west of the very quiet, two-lane U.S. 213. They were more open to talking politics than the farmer down the road, who politely told me to put my notebook away and get lost, but they asked me not to use their last name because of David’s job as a firefighter in a nearby community.

And then they launched into a debate about politics that topped anything I’d seen on cable TV that morning — the morning after the Washington Post reported Trump had provided the Russians with classified information, and the morning before the New York Times’ report that Trump had allegedly asked the since-fired FBI director to spike an investigation into the also-fired national security adviser.

“He needs to be impeached,” Amy, 37, told me as she sat on the porch in a rocking chair. Her husband, 42, smiled and shook his head as she continued. “He’s just doing a terrible job. Every day I turn to (David) and say, ‘Look at what your buddy did today.’ ”

Trump won the 2016 election in part because of his dominance in rural communities like this one. According to election records, Hillary Clinton received barely 15 percent of the vote in the Omega precinct, which sits just inside Hamilton County’s northern border. Even Amy, who detests how Trump has handled issues such as immigration, refugee admissions and health care, voted for a third-party candidate instead of Clinton. That helps you understand why Democrats continue to struggle to win elections, as do David’s words.

“They’re cowardly,” he said, telling me that he is sticking by Trump because of his views on the Second Amendment and what he sees as his stronger support of law enforcement. “I just feel like the Democrats won’t stand up for us. They’ve made us look like a weak country. It’s embarrassing.”

“We were ready for a president with some guts and some courage,” he continued. “But I’ll be honest, he’s not using it the right way. We need an aggressive president. But we also need a smart one.”

The couple moved to Omega from nearby Tipton County last year in search of more solitude. Their front porch, just steps away from 281st Street, looks straight out at the Omega Christian Church and then toward hundreds of acres of farmland. They have two children, both of whom excel at school, and they try to stick to a vegan diet. The couple has strong views in opposition to pesticides and debt, and they argued that everyone needs to work harder to get along.

“I try to live a life that is about public service and helping others,” David said. “I try to be what you’d call a humanitarian. But I also believe in owning a gun and protecting myself and my family. I don’t see anything wrong with that.”

Nearly four months in, Amy would give Trump a failing grade. David, though, would give him a solid C. He isn’t worried about the president’s Democratic critics and he has no use for the mainstream media. He still sees in Trump the potential to bring toughness and change to the country, and he believes the president is capable of learning from his mistakes. Most of all, he thinks we all just need to calm down.

“Trump will be alright if we just give him some time,” he said. “But I hate watching it all on TV. I’ll be honest, I hate politics. It’s all B.S. to me.”

There are a whole lot of Americans who would agree with that sentiment these days, and not just here in Omega.